From higher aims to hired hands : the social transformation of American business schools and the unfulfilled promise of management as a profession

Rakesh Khurana

Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have effectively retreated from that goal, leaving a gaping moral hole at the center of business education and perhaps in management itself. Khurana begins in the late nineteent

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Khurana, Rakesh
Publisher:	Princeton, NJ [u.a.] : Princeton University Press
Subject:	Wirtschaftshochschule \| Economics department \| Sozialer Wandel \| Social change \| Geschichte \| History \| Betriebswirtschaftsstudium \| Graduate business education
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de] ; Table of Contents [external.dandelon.com]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (542 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Contents; Introduction: Business Education and the Social Transformation of American Management; I: The Professionalization Project in American Business Education, 1881-1941; II: The Institutionalization of Business Schools, 1941-1970; III: The Triumph of the Market and the Abandonment of the Professionalization Project, 1970-the Present; Epilogue: Ideas of Order Revisited: Markets, Hierarchies, and Communities; Acknowledgments; Bibliographic and Methods Note; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; The professionalization project in American business education, 1881-1941An occupation in search of legitimacy -- Ideas of order: science, the professions, and the university in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America -- The invention of the university-based business school -- "A very ill-defined institution": the business school as aspiring professional school -- 2: The institutionalization of business schools, 1941-1970 -- The changing institutional field in the postwar era -- Disciplining the business school faculty: the impact of the foundations -- 3: The triumph of the market and the abandonment of the professionalization project, 1970-the present -- Unintended consequences: the Post-Ford Business School and the fall of managerialism -- Business schools in the marketplace.
ISBN:	978-0-691-14587-7 ; 1-282-25919-9 ; 978-1-282-25919-5 ; 978-1-4008-3086-2 ; 978-1-4008-3086-2 ; 978-0-691-14587-7
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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